Hyderabad Hiccup talks to their first celebrity in Sravanthi about comedy and their road to their first stand up hour.
Timestamps
0:00 All the women in the Hyderabad Comedy scene come to the Hiccup (Sorry Rupali, you're a Delhi comic now)
01:35 Sravanthi does a spot in Kazakhstan
02:37 Americans flocking to Rednote because Instagram reels sucks that much
04:14 Kritarth is chronically online (Future Kritarth timestamping this agrees)
06:00 Stand Up Comedy is much easier I'm the US than India
10:20 Switching from English to Telugu in stand up comedy
12:20 But how Telegu Comedy?
13:30 Sravanthi got laughs when she roasted the audience? But was that crowdwork?
14:20 How was it being on ETV's comedy nights?
16:00 ETV was liberal in their content moderation
18:32 Sex and Death is hilarious to Sravanthi
20:35 But it was edited out of TV!
22:00 Telugu and English separately, but do you do jokes in both?
23:00 English jokes work in West Delhi
24:20 That's not what I was asking Datta!
26:20 KJ hates the same 5 premises, Datta does not
27:00 Delhi Comics fight over the pettiest things
29:00 Datta likes Abhijeet's Randi jokes
30:00 Vivek makes great trilingual jokes
32:00 Why Sravanthi is the safest Telugu Comic (she's not)
34:00 Ramcharan can ('t) act as well as Allu Arjun
36:00 Does Telugu open up many more joke premises?
37:05 Very fast English jokes get missed in India
38:10 Nope... Datta thinks KJ has bad timing
41:00 Kritarth does a maithil joke on makhanas
42:40 Is the Telugu comedy scene more accessible? Nope
44:30 Cringe jokes can be the best
45:30 Failed cookie tasting
47:00 Best Biryani Recommendations: Cook your own!
48:30 How do Sravanthi's life experiences influence her comedy?
51:41 How to be a hack dark comic?
53:00 How to be a good dark comic
56:00 Sravanthi doesn't give a damn about what her family thinks of her comedy.
58:00 Oppenheimer and Barbie observations
59:20 ASMR segue
1:00:37 Don't jack off to our podcast
1:02:00 Friends of Snakes society saved 75000 snakes
1:08:00 Movie recommendation: Brad Pitt's Babylon
1:08:30 TV show recommendation: Raised by Wolves
1:10:00 Kerela decriminalises Magic Mushrooms?
1:13:00 Sravanthi's Solo is called A certificate and (don't) come with your family
1:15:00 Bad first date ideas: go to a comedy show
1:17:00 KJ defends going to live shows alone
1:18:53 Michaela Coel has made some amazing TV from Trauma
1:23:00 The anxieties of listing a comedy special
1:25:00 Come to live comedy shows!